The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-05-09
Ths 9aily 9nllstiu,
MONDAY MAY. 0 1887.
THE BLOOD or ENGLAND.

Lohuon IaHieS OF March l9th, pro-
ceeds to divide up the country ac-
cording to blood. AS regards South
Britain, he says, it will be generally
admitted that, emitting the question
of pre-Celtic races, Wales and Corn
wall are predominantly Celtic; that
the south and east are predominantly
Saxon, with considerable Norman
intermixture; that certain districts
are mainly Scandinavian that our
population is built up of three princi-
pal elements-Celtic, Saxon and
Scandinavian.
In Ireland, the population Of the
east and north is mainly Saxon; in
the northwest Celtic, while in the
extreme southwest the basis is
Iberian, akin TO the population in
parts of Spain. Very many of those
who imagine themselves TO be Celts,
and the natural foes of the Sessenach,
are descendants of English colonists,
even in Munster and Connaught.
The Parnells, Grays, Moores, Burkes,
Fitzgeralds, McMahons, Barrys,
Buffers, are Anglo-Norman.
TO pass to North Britain. Here
we are met at once by the curious
fact that the Saxons we're in Gale
donia before the Scots. In fact the
Scots were an Irish tribe. Ireland,
says Bede, ''was the original country
of the Scots" "Iberna propria
Scotorumest patria." Scotia was
originally Ireland" said Bozius-
"Scotia, que tum erat hernia"
The Scotch came from Ireland, says
Marianus, "Scotus, de hernia in
sula natus." Ireland, says Chalmers
in his great work, was "known at
the end of the Third century as the
native country of the Scots, and in
after ages by the name of Scotland F.;
this appellation was afterward trans
ferred from Ireland to Scotland" (;
and he asserts, as the result of all
his inquiries, that no permanent set
Element of the Scotch in Caledonia
took place till toward the close of
the Sixth century.
I'm fact, down to the Middle Ages,
if n person was called Scot it was
meant that he was born in Ireland.
MIR Bonwick says, "the real Scotia
was Ireland, whose name got trans
ferred to North Britain" and Mr..
Taylor, in "Words and Places" re-
marks that "the Scots, this con-
quering Irish sept, which appears to
have actually colonized only a part
of Argyle, succeeded in bestowing
its name ON the whole country"
Argyle is indeed the country of the
Gael or Irishman. In the north of
Scotland, the Orkneys, and Shet-
lands, the population is mainly
Scandinavian, Sutherland being so
named as the southern portion of
their territory. In the east and
south the population is mainly Saxon.
Edinburgh is Saxon city, built by
Edwin, King of Northumbria, and
called after him.
OF the great Scotch families, the
Ballots are named from Baillul or
Beliol in Normandy, the Camerons
from CambrOnne, the Bruces from
Yorkshire, the Stewards from
Shropshire, the Hamiltons from
Hambleton in Buclinghamshire, the
Lindsays from Lindsay in Essex, the
Sinclairs from st. Clair in Normandy,
the COmyns from st. Confines in
Flanders. Some even of the High
land clans are Teutonic. The Cor
dons, says MacLaughlin, the Frasers,
the Chisholms, ETC., are without any
trace of a connection with the Celts,
and originally without doubt of pure
Teutonic blood. So are the Macaul-
avs, while the Maclaughlins, Ken
nedys, Macdonalds and Munroes
are Irish, and the Elliotts, Frasers,
Maxwells, Mathesons and Keiths
English.
"The great heroes of Scottish
history" says Bonwick, "Bruce and
Wallace, were of English origin"
The Lothians says Hume, were
"entirely peopled with Saxons.'
Thus, then, in Scotland, as in
England, the east is manly leu
tonic, the west mainly Celtic. If
We are to be divided at all according
to blood, the divisions would not be
into England, Scotland, Ireland and
Wales. The main division in Great
Britain would not be from east to
west, but from north to south; the
Saxon division would include the
greater portion of the east of Eng
land, the east of Ireland and of
Scotland the Celtic division would
comprise most of the west of Ireland
and west of Scotland, with Wales
and Cornwall the Scandinavian the
north of Scotland, several maritime
districts on the east, Westmoreland,
Cumberland and Pembroke, while
the extreme southwest of Ireland
would be Iberian. Indeed, so much
intermingled are the different races
that one of our highest authorities,
DR.. Beddoe, after careful and pro-
longed study, says: "With respect
to the distribution and commixture
of race elements in the British Isles,
we may safely assert that not one Of
them, whether lberian, Gaelic,
Cymric, Saxon or Scandinavian, is
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